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Braz. J. Biol., 2015,  vol. 75, no. 3, p. 524-534 524 524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.15413 Original Article The hyporheic zone and its functions: revision and research status in Neotropical regions Mugnai, R. a *, Messana, G. b and Di Lorenzo, T. b a Laboratório de Aracnologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil b Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy *e-mail: [email protected] Received: August 30, 2013 – Accepted: April 28, 2014 – Distributed: August 31, 2015 Abstract The hyporheic zone (HZ), as the connecting ecotone between surface- and groundwater, is functionally part of both fluvial and groundwater ecosystems. Its hydrological, chemical, biological and metabolic features are specific of this zone, not belonging truly neither to surface- nor to groundwater. Exchanges of water, nutrients, and organic matter occur in response to variations in discharge and bed topography and porosity. Dynamic gradients exist at all scales and vary temporally. Across all scales, the functional significance of the HZ relates to its activity and connection with the surface stream. The HZ is a relatively rich environment and almost all invertebrate groups have colonized this habitat. This fauna, so-called hyporheos, is composed of species typical from interstitial environment, and also of benthic epigean and phreatic species. The hyporheic microbiocenose consists in bacteria, archaea, protozoa and fungi. The HZ provides several ecosystem services, playing a pivotal role in mediating exchange processes, including both matter and energy, between surface and subterranean ecosystems, functioning as regulator of water flow, benthic invertebrates refuge and place of storage, source and transformation of organic matter. The hyporheic zone is one of the most threatened aquatic environments, being strongly influenced by human activities, and the least protected by legislation worldwide. Its maintenance and conservation is compelling in order to preserve the ecological interconnectivity among the three spatial dimensions of the aquatic environment. Although several researchers addressed the importance of the hyporheic zone early, and most contemporary stream ecosystem models explicitly include it, very little is known about the HZ of Neotropical regions. From a biological standpoint, hyporheos fauna in Neotropical regions are still largely underestimated. This review focuses on a brief presentation of the hyporheic zone and its functions and significance as an ecotone. We also highlighted the key aspects considering also the current status of research in Neotropical regions. Keywords: Enterobacteriaceae, groundwater, meiofauna, macroinvertebrates, water exchange. A zona hiporréica e as suas funções: revisão e estado da arte da pesquisa na região neotropical Resumo A zona hiporréica, como ecótono de ligação entre a superfície e as águas subterrâneas, é parte funcional seja dos ecossistemas fluviais seja das águas subterrâneas. As características hidrológicas, as características químicas, biológicas e metabólicas são específicas desta zona, não pertencendo verdadeiramente nem a superfície nem às águas subterrâneas. Trocas de água, nutrientes e matéria orgânica ocorrem em resposta a variações na descarga, topografia do álveo e porosidade. Gradientes dinâmicos existem em todas as escalas e variam temporalmente. Em todas as escalas, o significado funcional da zona hyporheic relaciona-se com a sua conexão e atividades com a água superficial. O HZ é um ambiente relativamente rico e quase todos os grupos de invertebrados colonizaram este habitat. Esta fauna, chamada hyporheos, é composta por espécies típicas do ambiente intersticial, e também de espécies bentônicas epígeas e freáticas. A microbiocenose consiste em bactérias, arqueobactérias, fungos e protozoários. O HZ fornece vários serviços para o ecossistema, desempenhando um papel fundamental na mediação de processos de troca, incluindo seja a matéria, seja a energia, entre os ecossistemas superfíciais e os subterrâneos, funcionando como regulador do fluxo de água, de refúgio para invertebrados bentônicos e local de armazenagem, fonte e transformação de matéria orgânica. A zona hyporheic é um dos ambientes aquáticos mais ameaçados, sendo fortemente influenciado pelas atividades humanas, e um dos menos protegidos pela legislação em todo o mundo. A sua manutenção e conservação é necessaria para preservar a interconectividade ecológica entre as três dimensões espaciais do ambiente aquático. Apesar de vários pesquisadores aborem a importância da zona hyporheic a tempo, e a maioria dos modelos de ecossistemas atualmente

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Braz. J. Biol., 2015,  vol. 75, no. 3, p. 524-534524524

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.15413 Original Article

The hyporheic zone and its functions: revision and research status in Neotropical regions

Mugnai, R.a*, Messana, G.b and Di Lorenzo, T.b

aLaboratório de Aracnologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilbIstituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano,

10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy*e-mail: [email protected]

Received: August 30, 2013 – Accepted: April 28, 2014 – Distributed: August 31, 2015

AbstractThe hyporheic zone (HZ), as the connecting ecotone between surface- and groundwater, is functionally part of both fluvial and groundwater ecosystems. Its hydrological, chemical, biological and metabolic features are specific of this zone, not belonging truly neither to surface- nor to groundwater. Exchanges of water, nutrients, and organic matter occur in response to variations in discharge and bed topography and porosity. Dynamic gradients exist at all scales and vary temporally. Across all scales, the functional significance of the HZ relates to its activity and connection with the surface stream. The HZ is a relatively rich environment and almost all invertebrate groups have colonized this habitat. This fauna, so-called hyporheos, is composed of species typical from interstitial environment, and also of benthic epigean and phreatic species. The hyporheic microbiocenose consists in bacteria, archaea, protozoa and fungi. The HZ provides several ecosystem services, playing a pivotal role in mediating exchange processes, including both matter and energy, between surface and subterranean ecosystems, functioning as regulator of water flow, benthic invertebrates refuge and place of storage, source and transformation of organic matter. The hyporheic zone is one of the most threatened aquatic environments, being strongly influenced by human activities, and the least protected by legislation worldwide. Its maintenance and conservation is compelling in order to preserve the ecological interconnectivity among the three spatial dimensions of the aquatic environment. Although several researchers addressed the importance of the hyporheic zone early, and most contemporary stream ecosystem models explicitly include it, very little is known about the HZ of Neotropical regions. From a biological standpoint, hyporheos fauna in Neotropical regions are still largely underestimated. This review focuses on a brief presentation of the hyporheic zone and its functions and significance as an ecotone. We also highlighted the key aspects considering also the current status of research in Neotropical regions.

Keywords: Enterobacteriaceae, groundwater, meiofauna, macroinvertebrates, water exchange.

A zona hiporréica e as suas funções: revisão e estado da arte da pesquisa na região neotropical

ResumoA zona hiporréica, como ecótono de ligação entre a superfície e as águas subterrâneas, é parte funcional seja dos ecossistemas fluviais seja das águas subterrâneas. As características hidrológicas, as características químicas, biológicas e metabólicas são específicas desta zona, não pertencendo verdadeiramente nem a superfície nem às águas subterrâneas. Trocas de água, nutrientes e matéria orgânica ocorrem em resposta a variações na descarga, topografia do álveo e porosidade. Gradientes dinâmicos existem em todas as escalas e variam temporalmente. Em todas as escalas, o significado funcional da zona hyporheic relaciona-se com a sua conexão e atividades com a água superficial. O HZ é um ambiente relativamente rico e quase todos os grupos de invertebrados colonizaram este habitat. Esta fauna, chamada hyporheos, é composta por espécies típicas do ambiente intersticial, e também de espécies bentônicas epígeas e freáticas. A microbiocenose consiste em bactérias, arqueobactérias, fungos e protozoários. O HZ fornece vários serviços para o ecossistema, desempenhando um papel fundamental na mediação de processos de troca, incluindo seja a matéria, seja a energia, entre os ecossistemas superfíciais e os subterrâneos, funcionando como regulador do fluxo de água, de refúgio para invertebrados bentônicos e local de armazenagem, fonte e transformação de matéria orgânica. A zona hyporheic é um dos ambientes aquáticos mais ameaçados, sendo fortemente influenciado pelas atividades humanas, e um dos menos protegidos pela legislação em todo o mundo. A sua manutenção e conservação é necessaria para preservar a interconectividade ecológica entre as três dimensões espaciais do ambiente aquático. Apesar de vários pesquisadores aborem a importância da zona hyporheic a tempo, e a maioria dos modelos de ecossistemas atualmente

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1. Introduction

The water bodies are a broad integrated system that constitutes the “hydrologic landscape” of a given territory in complex networks of surface water, lakes, wetlands, rivers and groundwater. As a consequence, the analysis of the river ecosystem and the river basin management should consider four factors jointly: longitudinal, lateral, vertical and temporal (Boulton et al., 1998; Danielopol et al., 2004, 2008; European Commission, 2006; Ward, 1989).

Groundwater contribution has great importance in composition of surface waters (Hynes, 1983), and surface water depends on base flow (Boulton and Hancock, 2006), that is, the percentage of water in a channel that emerges from the underground. This relationship is due to two factors: i) the water passing through the substrate will, with time, be incorporated into the superficial system, ii) in many rivers, during the dry period, the base flow may constitute the majority of the water flowing in the channel. The interactions and range of hydrological and biogeochemical exchanges between surface water and groundwater are determined by the structure of the basin, reflecting the permeability of the aquifer, the local and regional geology, the water storage capacity of the river plain, the channel morphology, the topographical structure, the hydraulic conductivity of the riverbed sediments, the waterfront and the variations of recharge rate (Dahm et al., 1998; Wroblicky et al., 1998). These interactions influence both key stream ecosystem processes, such as primary productivity and nutrient cycling, and microbe and invertebrate communities’ diversity and spawning from some fish (see Boulton et al., 2010 and references therein). The physical place where all those interactions occur, is the hyporheic zone (Orghidan, 2010) Although several researchers addressed the importance of the hyporheic zone early (e.g., Orghidan, 2010; Schwoerbel, 1967; Williams and Hynes, 1974), and most contemporary stream ecosystem models (e.g., Thorp et al., 2006) explicitly include it, very little is known about hyporheic zone of Neotropical regions.

This review focuses on a brief presentation of the hyporheic zone and its functions and significance as an ecotone. We highlighted the key aspects considering also the current status of research in Neotropical regions.

1.1. Physical aspectsThe hyporheic zone (HZ) was formally nominated by

Orghidan (2010). For this environment there is no single conceptual definition due to different terminologies, methodologies and dogma among biologists, hydrologists

and geomorphologists (White, 1993). This zone is an active ecotone delimited superiorly by channel water and inferiorly by underground water (Bencala, 2000) being constituted by the interstitial spaces between the particles of the riverbed (Dahm and Valet, 1996).

Actually groundwater ecology is a multidisciplinary science that integrates hydrogeology and ecology. This multidisciplinary approach seeks to elucidate the function of groundwater ecosystems and their roles in maintaining subterranean and surface water quality.

The discipline of groundwater ecology started to develop during the end of the 19th century with natural history observations about organisms living in subsurface habitats (e.g., Schwoerbel, 1961); during the 1970s the incorporation of the concept of ecosystem structure and functioning into subsurface aquatic ecology represents the first major paradigm change (Danielopol and Griebler, 2008; Hancock et al., 2005).

In the decade of the 1990s, Gilbert et al. (1990) proposed the surface water/groundwater ecotone concept. In that concept the HZ is considered as a transition zone between two ecosystems that display characteristics of both. The ecotone approach led to a functional classification of hyporheic invertebrates into three broad groups based on their affinity to the groundwater habitat (Marmonier et al., 1993). Another significant advance was the study of the central role of hydrological exchange between groundwater and surface water in determining the chemistry and fauna of the hyporheic zone (e.g., Valett et al., 1993).

The “Hyporheic Corridor Concept” (HCC) was proposed by Stanford and Ward (1993), which emphasized the connection and interaction between HZ and hydrographic basin.

Boulton et al. (1998) explored the trends of interactions at different scale: sediment scale (sub-millimeter to meter), reach scale (1–1,000 m), catchment scale (>1,000 m).

More recently the idea of HCC was integrated in a broader context, integrating the stygoscape concept, introduced by Ward (1997), which designates the aquifers beneath alluvial flood plains equivalent to landscape, comprising the three saturated zones beneath and laterally of the alluvial, each with its chemical and biological properties interacting with the channel surface: hyporheic zones within the wetted channel, riparian zones furthest from the channel, and parafluvial zones between the hyporheic and riparian zones (Datry et al., 2008; Ward et al., 2002).

Thorp et al. (2006) proposed the Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis (RES) that considers the river as downstream arrays of large hydrogeomorphic patches formed by catchment geomorphology and flow characteristics, including the HZ.

incluí-lo de forma explicita, muito pouco se sabe sobre o HZ das regiões neotropicais. Do ponto de vista biológico, a fauna hiporréica das regiões neotropicais é ainda largamente subestimada. Esta revisão visa apresentar de forma resumida a zona hiporréica, suas funções e importância como ecótono. Também visa destacar os aspectos principais considerando também o estado actual da investigação em regiões neotropicais.

Palavras-chave: Enterobacteriaceae, água subterranean, meiofauna, macroinvertebrados, troca de água.

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In the last two decades, the link between the disciplines of hydrogeology and groundwater ecology has become stronger. Ground- and surface- waters are considered interactive components of the same hydrologic system and cannot be treated singularly in the view of aquifer management and water quality remediation (Hancock et al., 2005; Humphreys, 2009).

The exact limits of the HZ is difficult to define, due to its variability in space and time (Williams, 1984). Its upper boundary, can be relatively easily delineated by the decline in light intensity and flow speed (Schwoerbel, 1964). As in deep groundwater habitats, HZ lacks of light. In well-illuminated surface water habitats four fundamental trophic levels may be recognized: primary producers, primary consumers, decomposers, and predators; in the subterranean habitats characterized by darkness only two (decomposers and predators or parasites) are significantly represented and in this sense, subterranean biodiversity, including hyporheic biodiversity, may be considered as strongly truncated basally (Gibert and Deharveng, 2002).

This interstitial environment receives dissolved organic substance through surface exchange, and, on the other hand, produces organic substances derived from animal, bacterial and fungal activity.

Thereby, the interstitial environment is one storage area of autochthonous and allochthonous organic materials and constitutes the area where bacteria most efficiently process the dissolved organic carbon and the concentration of nitrates, phosphates, silicates, organochlorines and heavy metals are higher in relation to the surface habitat (Bencala, 2005).

Under optimal conditions the HZ is interested by active hydric exchanges (surface water towards groundwater and viceversa) and can be extended vertically in meters and laterally in kilometers (Stanford et al., 1996; Ward, 1992).

In the HZ, in opposition to the superficial environment, the water flow is laminar and not unidirectional and the pressure gradient generated by the flow from the irregular river bed induces the water to move in and out of the riverbed (Hutchinson and Webster, 1998; Thibodeaux and Boyle, 1987) in a process known as hyporheic exchange (Harvey and Wagner, 2000).

From the flow point of view two riverbed zones can be delineated: the zone of non-Darcian flow towards the bed surface and the zone of Darcian flow deeper in the substrate (Bencala, 2000; Greig et al., 2005).

1.2. Interstitial faunaFrom a biological standpoint, the HZ is a relatively

rich environment and almost all invertebrate groups have colonized this habitat following multiple and successive colonization processes (Dole-Olivier, 2011; Stoch and Galassi, 2010). Subterranean populations are characterized by high proportion of endemic species and a large number of allopatric vicariant species often clusters in numerous metapopulations, results of geografical isolation or relicts of ancient faunas that may evolve into species with time (Porter, 2007).

Some groups are well represented below ground, whereas many others are absent. For example, crustaceans have been very successful with 12 orders present in the subterranean environment and the number of subterranean crustacean species may equal or exceed that of epigean ones in the same area; conversely, only a few of the huge number of freshwater aquatic insect families have subterranean representatives (Gibert and Deharveng, 2002).

This fauna, so-called hyporheos, is composed of species typical from interstitial environment, and also of benthic epigean and phreatic species (Gibert, 1991; Gibert et al., 1990; Kirchengast, 1984; Ruffo, 1961; Ward, 1992). Three categories of organisms can be distinguished based on habitat affinity: stygoxenes that have no affinities with the underground environment and that occur in it only accidentally; stygophiles that show some affinities but no specializations, actively exploring the resources and accomplishing part of their life cycle in it; stygobites that present morphological, physiological and ethological specializations to the underground habitats where they are bounded to complete their life cycle (Gibert et al., 1994).

The HZ is thought to serve multiple functions for lotic invertebrates. The benthic species use this area against competition or predation, nursery and refuge from the movement of the substrate or environmental variations due to seasonal flooding and drought (Dole-Oliver et al., 1997; James et al., 2008; Lencioni, 2004; Lencioni et al., 2008; Schwoerbel, 1967; Stubbington, 2012; Williams and Hynes, 1974). The role in the persistence of benthic assemblages in the after disturbances (‘hyporheic refuge hypothesis’, HRH) has been recently reviewed by Dole-Olivier (2011) after its initial proposal in 1953. The active vertical migration of various insect orders when a stream water dries has been reported by Larimore et al. (1959) and successively reported by Boulton and Stanley (1995) in relation with desert streams. Among the insect larvae can be cited Ephemeroptera, Coleoptera and Diptera; however, adult insects like elmids and staphylinids are frequently observed too. The insects’ larvae are generally confined to the upper layers, but some species penetrate deeper and can be an important component of the hyporheos (Fenoglio et al., 2006; Lencioni, 2004; Lencioni et al., 2008; Malard et al., 2002) like Chironomidae (Pinder, 1986; Reynolds Junior and Benke, 2006). Other groups perform vertical migrations: Crustacea, Annelida, Acari, Nematoda, Tricladida (Godbout and Hynes, 1982; Olsen and Townsend, 2003). Some authors (e.g. Boulton et al., 2004; Dole-Olivier, 2011; Dole-Olivier et al., 1997; Otermin et al., 2002; Palmer et al., 1992; Wood et al., 2010) argued that the recolonization of a water body after a catastrophic flood event is accomplished through vertical migration from HZ.

At the catchment scale, the alternation of upwelling and downwelling sectors in the HZ may be mirrored by changes in the diversity of stygobiotic and non-stygobiotic hyporheic taxa, as observed in an Alpine stream by Di Lorenzo et al. (2013), thus supporting the hypothesis primarily formulated by Lafont et al. (1992) for oligochaetes, and subsequently

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developed by Lafont and Malard (2001) and Lafont and Vivier (2006), on the role of some meiofaunal species as active exchange describers, i.e. indicators of ground water/surface water exchanges in the HZ.

Some fishes lay their eggs and spawn in gravel bed substrate. The HZ strongly influences the incubating embryos of gravel spawning fish species, particularly of those species that lay their eggs at depth within the gravel, such as salmonids. The typical salmonid burial depths range from 0.05 to 0.5 m (UK Environment Agency, 2009) and in the HZ the young develope (Heggenes et al., 2013). Kawanishi et al. (2013), studying the benthic fish Cobitis shikokuensis in an intermittent river, demonstrated that the HZ is a refuge habitat for this species in dry periods, highlighting the critical role of the hyporheic zone in population maintenance of some fishes.

1.3. MicrobsIn the HZ, biogeochemical cycling, microbial ecology

and the ecology of invertebrates community should not be considered as discrete compartments but rather as an interactive system. The hyporheic microbiocenose consists in bacteria, archaea, protozoa and fungi and can be found in plankton form, in interstitial areas like settled and movement form and in biofilms (Danielopol et al., 2004, 2008; Griebler and Lueders, 2009). The biofilm covers the inorganic granules and is probably the most important component of the interstitial environment (Bretschko and Leichtfried, 1988) since it is estimated that 10g of sediment with a granule diameter of 0.1mm can cover 1m2 of surface (Malard et al., 2002). The few available studies concerning microbial communities in the HZ (Griebler and Lueders, 2009 and references herein), mainly focused on the ecology of bacteria rather than of the microbial diversity, showed that microbial community structures change among systems and show a seasonal pattern, as observed by Feris et al. (2003) and Hullar et al. (2006), conversely to what has been reported for aquifers for which seasonal dynamics have not been reported. Aaerobic bacteria, and enteric bacteria in the HZ showed significant differences between winter and summer or in upwelling and downwelling zone and temperature, inorganic nutrients, and occurrence of anoxic zones affected the distribution of enteric bacteria (UK Environment Agency, 2009)

For detailed revision and nutrient cycling fluxes and diagrams see: Gibert and Deharveng (2002), UK Environment Agency (2009).

2. Functions

The HZ plays a pivotal role in mediating exchange processes, including both matter and energy, between surface and subterranean ecosystems, functioning as regulator of water flow, benthic invertebrates refuge and place of storage, source and transformation of organic matter. The HZ can be considered a natural filter, able to mitigate and slow down chemical-physical variations that affect both surface and groundwater environments (Brunke and Gonser, 1997). Due to occurrence of temporary storage spaces and prolonged

residence time of up- and down-welling water, nutrients and pollutants can be actively degraded and/or absorbed before they are spread in the water body (Boulton et al., 1998). Heterotrophic biofilm exerts a major influence in the biochemical transformation of contaminants such as pesticides, suggesting that the interface between running water and sediment plays a role in self-purification of stream reaches (Sánchez-Pérez et al., 2013).

3. Human Impact

From an ecological point of view, the HZ and its biological components are strongly influenced by human activities resulting in significant and persistent impacts (Hancock, 2002).

Due to the close proximity to the surface, hyporheic zones are particularly susceptible to contaminants from both the overlying stream and parafluvial flow. Potential contaminants include:

(1) sewage or fecal contamination with human or animal source. In developing countries sewage pollution is one of the biggest sources of pollution (Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012; Miguel, 1991). This situation is critical for human health due to the utilizations of deep or shallow wells for drinking water in some areas (Colvara et al., 2009; Fairbrother and Nadeau, 2006).

(2) pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers used for crops, trails, or roads, hazardous material introductions. As effect of the interaction between surface water and groundwater in watersheds where industries and intensive agricultural activities are performed, pesticides and heavy metals present in the field can reach the surface or the aquifers due to the movement of the water (Boulton et al., 1998; Di Lorenzo et al., 2012), far from the pollution source point, and may constitute a risk both to physical and chemical integrities of water resources (Boulton and Hancock, 2006). In Central and South America, chemical-intensive tropical agriculture is an important economic resource and still growing and the use of chemicals, in many countries, is not supported by an appropriate legislation, causing strong effect on freshwater fauna (Corbi et al., 2008; Egler et al., 2012; Aharonson, 1987; Nordstrom, 2002).

(3) extractive or deforestation activities. The extractive activity and deforestation of landscape and riparian areas determining long-term changes in hidrossedimentar dynamics and fauna (Pinto et al., 2006; Santos and Stevaux, 2010). Beside, it induces an increase in fine sediment causing clogging, filling the interstitial spaces (Richards and Bacon, 1994) and destroying groundwater-surface hydrological linkages. Descloux et al. (2013) observed that high amount of fine sediments within the HZ significantly decreased habitat quality for benthic and hyporheic invertebrates, thus limiting the production of streams

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and their capacity to recover after disturbance. River incision, climate changes and groundwater overuse induce increasing groundwater depletion and drought frequency in floodplains, affecting interstitial assemblages of the HZ (Dehedin et al., 2013);

(4) constructions of dams. Presence of dams change dynamic, composition and structure of epibenthic fauna (Callisto et al., 2005; Almeida et al., 2009) and can alter the water exchange (Fabian et al., 2011). Dams along small-order streams are known to alter the linkage between headwater and downstream reaches, potentially increasing at short distance hyporheic connectivity in the riparian zone (Duke et al., 2007). In particular, dams simplify alluvial system structure, reducing surface water peak flows and hyporheic flow and thus preventing refilling of alluvial aquifers (Poole and Berman, 2001).

4. Maintenance and Restoration

Today the importance of the HZ and groundwater on the dynamics and functioning of surface waters is recognized and there are already guidelines for their use and protection (Boulton et al., 1998; Danielopol et al., 2004, 2008; European Commission, 2006). Until now, however, research on watershed and freshwater management has segregated surface water and groundwater in different compartments and an integrated reading river-aquifer was only exceptionally attempted for sustainable management of water resources (Boulton et al., 1998).

The maintenance and conservation of interstitial habitats improve the ecological interconnectivity among the three spatial dimensions (Stanford et al., 1996), and preserve areas that contain allochthonous food-webs source. Consequently, the primary strategy for restoration of water bodies must provide for identification, stabilization and restoration of vertical linkages (Boulton, 2007).

The cryptic nature of the interstitial environment and its linkages, the lack of reference data and the lack of pragmatism in monitoring probably contributed for failure in many practical actions (Boulton, 2007; Boulton et al., 2010; Fernandez, 2005).

5. Hyporheic Zone in Neotropical Region

In the Neotropical Region the study of hyporheic fauna is scarce. The first study of interstitial fauna was accomplished by Fernández and Palacios (1989) using the collecting method Kararan-Chapuis (Chappuis, 1942). Some study about water exchanges, nutrients and chemistry was done in some countries (Cuajinicuilapa et al. (2012) in Mexico; Chestnut and McDowell (2000) in Puerto Rico; Fabian et al. (2011) in Honduras; Marchetti and Carrillo-Rivera, 2013 in Argentina; Medina et al., 2003 in Venezuela and Romero-González et al. (2001) in Venezuela; Smedt, (2007) and Smedt et al. (2006) in Chile). Otherwise only

one work on hyporheic fauna was published from Argentina (Fernández and Palacios, 1989).

From a taxonomic group stand point only for two group were found list/or ecological papers: Hydrachnidia (Chelicerata) (Fernández, 2001, 2002; Fernández and Fossati-Gaschignard, 2011 for Argentina; Orghidan and Gruia, 1983 for Venezuela; Schwoerbel, 1986 for Chile); Oligochaeta (Annelida) (Botea, 1987 apud Rodríguez (2002) for Venezuela; Rodríguez (2002) for Cuba).

For freshwater Crustacea like Cladocera, Copepoda, Syncarida and Peracarida several monographs or lists are available (e.g. Boxshall and Defaye, 2008; Camacho and Valdecasas, 2008; Elmoor-Loureiro, 1997; Forró et al., 2008; Gaviria, 1989, 1994; Grosso, 1991; Grosso and Peralta, 2002; Löffler, 1981; Lopretto and Morrone, 1998; Mercado-Salas et al., 2012; Suárez-Morales et al., 1996; Noodt, 1965; Peralta and Grosso, 2009; Reid, 1988, 1998; Young, 1998; beside others), however exhaustive species descriptions and ecological remarks can found in the original descriptions.

Zooplankton group densities from two Venezuelan reservoirs, collected at different depths from oxygenated layers, were compared by Gonzalez et al. (2002). Copepods and rotifers were the dominant groups in both reservoirs, during the whole study period. In sediment samples, taken during a short-term study of the distribution of meiofauna from a coastal lagoon in Sinaloa (northwestern Mexico), Gomez (2002) collected several species of harpacticoids, some of which new to science.

In these works the habitus is indicated as interstitial, interstitial in river sand, groundwater, groundwater of river, groundwater in sandy beach of river, hyporheic and phreatic zone.

This heterogeneity of definition, jointly with the misidentification of habitats, due for example to hyporheic or phreatic species found in the up layers due to de upwelling, water can result in underestimation of underground biodiversity and errors in ecological studies (Fernández, 2004).

For Insecta Harrison (1966) and Hynes (1975), cited in Ward (1992), argued that the recolonization of a tropical water body after a catastrophic flood event can be principally due by ovodeposition by aerial adults differently from the temperate streams were the HZ may be a refuge for many species and therefore contains an important reservoir of organism to repopulate the surface. To our knowledge, the only work that includes hyporheic insects was accomplished by Fernández and Palacios (1989) using the collecting method Chamaran-Chapuis (Chappuis, 1942).

For the Vertebrata that can be found in the HZ of Neotropical regions, some fish species were described as psammophilic (sand-dwelling), microphagous carnivores with sit-and-wait strategy or active foraging tactics, as Pygidianops spp. and Typhlobelus spp. (Schaefer et al., 2005 from Venezuela), Imparfinis pristos (Mees and Cala, 1989 from Orinoco River in Colombia, apud Zuanon et al., 2006), Characidium cf. pteroides, Stauroglanis gouldingi, Gymnorhamphichthys rondoni, Mastiglanis asopos

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(Zuanon et al., 2006 from Orinoco Basin, Amazonia) and Phreatobius sp. (Bolivia).

For rivers and lakes waters, in general, there is a vast amount of information on the presence and survival of microbial quality indicators, but limited information relating to the HZ.

In the Neotropical Region the studies of micro biota like bacteria in HZ is strategic. Some microbial communities in elevated concentrations, generally associated of human pollution, were found in superficial water sources in uninhabited rain forests (Rivera et al., 1988). Escherichia coli found upstream of known fecal sources showed a strong positive correlation with water temperature and nutrient concentrations (Carrillo et al., 1985; Jimenez et al., 1989; Mugnai et al., 2015; Rivera et al., 1988).

As in the mammalian host environment, nutrients in tropical ecosystems are maintained at high concentrations, and together with constant warm temperatures provide an ideal habitat for survival, growth, and proliferation of E. coli (Winfield and Groisman, 2003; Mugnai et al., 2015).

That characteristic can favorite other bacteria associated with human health like Salmonella spp. (Anderson et al., 2005; Fish and Pettibone, 1995; Winfield and Groisman, 2003; Mugnai et al., 2015). Consequently soil and sediment particles can function as microecological niches in which bacterial species can survive and replicate and result in risk for human health. However, these aspects are poorly investigated and represent a crucial point also in those regions worldwide where HZ was better studied (Marmonier et al., 2012; Mugnai et al., 2015).

Acknowledgements

We thank CAPES and FAPERJ for the financial support. Many thanks to Dr. Kury Adriano Museu Nacional/UFRJ for to allow the research in the Arachnology Laboratory, Gatti Mario Jorge Curator of Coleção Micológica de Trichocomaceae IOC/FIOCRUZ for the technical support. We are indebted with an anonymous reviewer who provided comments that improved the manuscript.

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